Friday, November 24, 2006

Heart and soul

If you missed Sara Fishko’s piece on WNYC on Wednesday about Frank Loesser Hoagy Carmichael’s "Heart and Soul," here is a link to the podcast (7:13 minutes). Also, the lyrics are posted.

If you’re like me, you can't get enough of the first recording of the song, made in 1938, performed by Larry Clinton & His Orchestra featuring Bea Wain, none of whom had any idea that for 60 years the song would never ceased to be played somewhere in the world at all times, mostly by children plunking away at it in pairs on pianos in school lunchrooms [click here for stream].

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I never knew how pretty the lyrics were to Heart & Soul. Lovely post.

By the way, I've been making it a project to see if the cat urine ad showed up and not only has it, but so has sleeping remedies for your baby.

I'm tempted to click on the cat urine ad to see what's suggested because female dog urine may not as foul smelling, can be pretty nasty.